American society is not nap-friendly. In fact, there’s even a (36) against admitting we need sleep. Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at the Switch. To quote an (37) proverb: "Some sleep five hours, nature requires seven, laziness nine and (38) eleven."
Wrong. The way not to fall a sleep at the switch is to take naps when you need them. "We have to (39) change our attitude toward napping," says Dr. William Dement of Stanford University, the (40) of sleep research.
Last year a national commission led by Dement (41) an "American sleep debt," which one member said was as important as the national debt. The commission was concerned about the dangers of (42) : people causing industrial accidents or falling asleep while driving.
About 60 percent of American (43) nap when given the opportunity. (44) Clearly, we were born to nap.
(45) ,particularly if you’re supposed to be doing something else. And, we should all note, (46)